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captain_joe6 t1_j6ky4qq wrote
Looks like someone didn’t read the EULA…
mad-hatt3r t1_j6l17r4 wrote
Trade ban makes Taiwan more enticing and forces China to produce better chips domestically. They won't match the quality or speed of Intel or AMD, but they have an educated workforce that learns quickly. China is not Russia and this could come to bite us down the road
fpcoffee t1_j6l6wnh wrote
But… but it’s not allowed!?
realmastodon2 t1_j6l6x7l wrote
You can literally buy American chips in Taiwan or Vietnam. Set up a company in one of those countries and buy blacklisted products. Create a network to obfuscate the buyer and you get this.
Badtrainwreck t1_j6lfn8e wrote
Banning China from any technology just adds 2 extra steps to them getting whatever they want.
MrFartyBottom t1_j6lgpl6 wrote
Now we know why GPU prices are so fucking ridiculous.
Sniffy4 t1_j6lmgxh wrote
bans are still useful in that China will not be able to obtain them in unlimited quantities as they otherwise would
BassmanBiff t1_j6lncz1 wrote
Including the feds, though. The point is just to make it harder, they know sanctions aren't perfect.
BassmanBiff t1_j6lnjlb wrote
Artificially reducing demand would make them cheaper, if they're even targeted by these sanctions (I have no idea).
MrFartyBottom t1_j6lnra5 wrote
Not the sanctions, the Chinese military buying them up.
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Be_quiet_Im_thinking t1_j6lpuyr wrote
But they don’t use Apple iTunes?!!?
Sniffy4 t1_j6lrfxt wrote
Just because some chips get through doesnt mean the ban is doing nothing. I dont think China will be able to easily outfit many huge data centers with tens of thousands of latest Nvidia chips to enable AI surveillance of its population, for instance.
icebeat t1_j6lrhjt wrote
How do they know?
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Current-Power-6452 t1_j6lubxb wrote
You can't call a market open if you ban people from it. Call it a club 🤣
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_TheQwertyCat_ t1_j6lvo2i wrote
That’s the way The Free Market™ works. Don’t like it? Move to Chi— oh wait...
DividedState t1_j6lw1k7 wrote
It adds cost. Extra steps usually ask for a premium to cover their risk.
AadamAtomic t1_j6ly4zh wrote
It means China now has to buy from Unreliable Black markets ran by the CIA with pre installed malwar.
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Sniffy4 t1_j6lyjza wrote
let us know where China can buy 10000 GeForce RTX 3090's on alibaba.
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Agreeable-Meat1 t1_j6m03v4 wrote
There are party members in various countries that the CCP has financial interest in, they could easily "crowd source" through those people. 10 high end graphics cards will just look like someone setting up a crypto mining setup.
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fog_of_war t1_j6m1f64 wrote
Easily... especially now since GPU mining is dead after the Ethereum merge. They can just get it from former miners for pennies on the *ahem* yuan.
Therealfactfinder t1_j6mbyp3 wrote
Sanctions are counterproductive in long term.
schacks t1_j6mc6j9 wrote
I would guess the real reseller behind this are the CIA.
Joooooooosh t1_j6mcj7l wrote
You say this but a lot of technical improvements in China have come from importing western specialists.
If you look at a lot of the high tech companies manufacturing there, the design teams and lead engineers come from the west.
The Chinese education system is kinda batshit insane and competitive on a level, few of us in the west can understand. It doesn’t really reward creative thinking or encourage people with novel ideas, quite the opposite really.
Not to say some really bright people don’t make it through but then they are presented with the classic issues within communist systems… cronyism and just endless red tape, very un-talented people gate keeping and protecting themselves. It leads to little or no innovation.
theoneronin t1_j6mf49p wrote
Free market baby!!
Solivagant23 t1_j6mi5xt wrote
Just downloaded it thanks, Any other suggestions that are similar?
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somegridplayer t1_j6mmduv wrote
I mean they could have just had them sent to an Amazon drop box the next country over.
somegridplayer t1_j6mmiin wrote
It's barely harder, it's just a hassle. They can literally make a company in the next country over called "Literally Not China" and have them shipped there then re-ship. And nobody would care.
somegridplayer t1_j6mmlgf wrote
Named "Not PRC Official Company To Buy Microchips".
Dead_Or_Alive t1_j6mqo29 wrote
The point of sanctions is not stop China from using high end or mid level chips at scale. Yes there will always be ways around the rules.
What sanctions prevents is the capacity to build high tech products for mass consumption or use. You can’t setup a factory churning out high end products without the ability to reliably get chips at a consistent quality. Your not going to get chips at that scale on the black market.
somegridplayer t1_j6mrquc wrote
>What sanctions prevents is the capacity to build high tech products for mass consumption or use.
Which it never did.
>Your not going to get chips at that scale on the black market.
What are you even talking about? They don't have to go to the black market to get them.
pinkwblue t1_j6mwlw3 wrote
This has got to stop. But doing it is another issue. How ?
Le1bn1z t1_j6n0k4k wrote
People expecting these sanctions to be airtight or to be a product of mere "free market" problems should probably remember the famous American B-2 spirit bomber (EDIT: SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft) was made with titanium that was over 90% sourced from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Short of a military embargo, these sorts of sanctions are only partially effective, and can only reasonably prevent mass redistribution in composite products, or modestly increase costs and hassle.
digital_end t1_j6n3u6f wrote
Whole thread of snarky people with surface level understanding thinking they're clever.
Dz6810 t1_j6n4hw3 wrote
Imagine that one day China banned the export of rare earths to make weapons for the United States. The United States will obediently follow the instructions?
samarkhandia t1_j6n6tts wrote
Better than removing blocks and removing 2 steps
AlphaTangoFoxtrt t1_j6n6znb wrote
You cant stop it, but you can make it more expensive.
Instead of buying the chips directly China has to set up, or go through intermediaries.
This adds overhead costs and risks. If they get the chips through a Vietnamese intermediary, the US can pressure Vietnam to shut it down or risk being sanctioned as well.
hells_cowbells t1_j6n7lqm wrote
That was the SR-71, not the B-2.
Grey531 t1_j6nbg0n wrote
I get why this isn’t allowed but nuclear power plants may be an area where we want to cooperate with anyone and everyone to ensure safest practises.
Le1bn1z t1_j6nf06m wrote
> was the SR-71, not t
Damn, you're right!
mad-hatt3r t1_j6niwe0 wrote
I agree that the competition in the schools are soul sucking and robs children of their childhood. However, you have a common Western view that I don't believe is very accurate. Mostly from people that don't understand the region. To say they don't innovate or have novel ideas is comforting for the west but wrong. I've heard from the heads of Google and even Elon talk about China, saying these stereotypes are completely absurd. Intelligent ppl innovate, Chinese can and will. Half of modern society arises from Chinese innovation, to dismiss that shows a real Western propaganda bias. Not here to give a lesson on history, or shill for a repressive regime. Just pointing out that these policies can and often will backfire
Joooooooosh t1_j6nw4ov wrote
Wasn’t really the point I tried to make, just by sheer percentages alone, China must have some real innovators.
The main issue is the political culture and systems of government and business.
Chinese people are just as capable as anyone else but only certain cultures seem to produce free thinking, trend busting and renegade inventors.
Look at the peak of the USSR, produced some of the smartest people in history. Unfortunately the rate of technological advancement stalled and suffered, because of the corrupt cronyism that’s rampant in communist states.
China isn’t a meritocracy, only favourable people to the regime are allowed to succeed and this is what stifles real innovation.
Productivity ground to a halt in the USSR due to massive corruption and I don’t see much evidence that this won’t happen in China. The regime at the top has tightened, Xi has surrounded himself by weak, yes men and expelled any dissenting voices.
The West tried to move closer to Russia and China, opening their economies up, hoping it would bring the nations closer. It has failed. Putin built an army with the profits and is trying to rebuilt the Soviet Union, Xi has centralised power and doubled down on Authoritarianism.
It will be interesting to see how the two economies manage without Western input, they might do fine but history is not on the side of corrupt, authoritarian regimes.
BassmanBiff t1_j6nz262 wrote
I hadn't thought of that, but it makes perfect sense. Thanks!
ThunderKant_1 t1_j6ovhot wrote
The exact same shit was said about Japan not so long ago… (that they can’t innovate and just steal all the tech from the west, and everything made in Japan is low quality). And actually the same has been said about Germany as well a little longer ago. So I would be cautious with these kind of statements, they don’t have a good track record.
Also there are already examples of fields were China is more technologically advanced and more innovative then the west, for example renewable energy or some aspects of EV manufacturing (new battery tech for example)
Seeker_00860 t1_j6oxbfd wrote
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Joooooooosh t1_j6pi9cq wrote
I mean who knows what the future holds…
But why isn’t Russia a technological powerhouse…
Germany, Japan, Korea… these are not authoritarian countries, with nightmarish political systems. They ain’t perfect, but they ain’t totalitarian hellscapes either.
Just because things are going well somewhere, doesn’t mean the trajectory holds.
Iran was a beacon of progress in the East, now look at it… Brazil was poised to become a powerhouse but things fell apart.
No doubt Chinese industry has come a long way, turbo boosted by Western companies wanting a piece of the action but as the country becomes more insular, more extreme… let’s see how things go.
China’s rise was not Xi’s doing. He’s just the rich kid inheriting his Daddy’s fortune.
Useless_Advice_Guy t1_j6kwp45 wrote
To the surprise of absolutely no one.